With both assaults she has faced in her life, the pop star chose to remain publicly silent because of how she saw women like Rihanna treated by the public following their physical traumas. Her mom compared the experience to a “horror movie.” After enduring severely low oxygen levels, Lovato had three strokes and a heart attack. The strokes left her with brain damage and blind spots in her vision, so she can no longer drive. She also experienced pneumonia from her asphyxiation and multiple organ failures. rockland recovery treatment centers As Lovato admits, she was not purposefully aiming to overdose that night.

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“The whole journey was really healing for me. Honoring the truth of my inner child was really healing for me,” Lovato (who uses she/they pronouns) said. Some of the content on this site expresses viewpoints and opinions that are not those of the Recording Academy and its Affiliates. Responsibility for the accuracy of information provided in stories not written by or specifically prepared for the Academy and its Affiliates lies with the story’s original source or writer. Content on this site does not reflect an endorsement or recommendation of any artist or music by the Recording Academy and its Affiliates. Playing with Carole King in 1993 was a really educational experience because she taught me a lot about something that I thought that I did naturally, but she helped me to fine tune it, which was soloing within the context of the song. It was really just a couple of words that she said to me during this take that stuck with me.

Orgy Of The Damned strips back much of the heavier side of his playing for a 12-track homage to the songs and artists that have long inspired him. After dabbling in co-directing on music videos like 2013’s “Made in the USA” (with Ryan Pallotta) and 2021’s “Dancing with the Devil” (with Michael D. Ratner), Lovato made her official directorial debut with Hulu’s Child Star. Five years later, she was named a Global Citizen ambassador for her work advocating for the mental health of thousands of displaced children within Iraq and surrounding communities, and helped fund a Save the Children pilot program in the region.

“Hannah Montana” found Cyrus playing a spunky middle schooler by day and world-famous pop star by night, and the network leveraged the sitcom’s conceit to give the Tennessee native (and daughter of ’90s country heartthrob Billy Ray Cyrus) the best of both worlds. Following the release of her sixth studio album, Tell Me You Love Me, in late 2017, Lovato invited a camera crew to capture her on tour that following summer. Unfortunately, her descent back into drugs and alcohol that led to a near-fatal overdose that July was happening behind the scenes. Cameras captured a bit of her partying again and even writing her confessional ballad “Sober,” but the project was scrapped after she was hospitalized.

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“Never have I been more sure of myself and my music, and this record speaks that for itself. As Demi Lovato prepares to return to rock with their eighth album, ‘HOLY FVCK,’ here’s a rundown of all the details we know about the LP so far, including singles “Skin Of My Teeth” and “Substance” and the full tracklist. Following the overdose, Lovato settled down in a rehab center to detox and get well. She reached out to her longtime business manager Glenn Nordinger with the request to hire Scooter Braun (Justin Bieber, Demi Lovato) to manage her career. In 2012, she chronicled her recovery after her first stint in rehab with Staying Strong. Five years later, in the film Simply Complicated, she opened up about her bipolar-disorder diagnosis and admitted that she had been using cocaine while filming Staying Strong.

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“It was bittersweet because it was all I wanted, and it was miserable.” Lamar appeared on three tracks — “family ties,” “range brothers” and “vent” — from Keem’s debut album, The Melodic Blue. Keem then returned the favor for Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, featuring on “Savior (Interlude)” and “Savior” as well as receiving production and writing credits on “N95” and “Die Hard.” On the eve of the song’s release, Lovato will debut the song on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Prior to announcing the full album, Lovato revealed that the first single, titled “Skin Of My Teeth,” will arrive June 10. “The process of making this album has been the most fulfilling yet, and I’m grateful to my fans and collaborators for being on this journey with me,” they wrote.

1. The tour included a four-show homecoming at L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena in September 2022, followed by performances in Europe,Australia, and New Zealand through late 2022.
2. Lovato drew attention for the June 2018 release of the single “Sober,” in which they candidly admits to relapsing after six years of sobriety.
3. “Ultimately, I made the decisions that got me to where I am today. It was my actions that put me in the position that I’m in,” she admitted at the time.
4. Lovato has long been passionate about using her platform for good, and that includes combining her music with causes close to her heart, especially LGBTQIA+ rights and mental health.
5. The tour will feature support from DEAD SARA and Royal & the Serpent, and tickets go on sale on June 10 at 10 a.m.

At the end of the 30-second clip, we see the singer silently brooding in a tub, alone — the antithesis of creative rapport. It seems Demi fans may be in for both extremes of isolation and jubilance, and everything between — and Lovato wouldn’t have it any other way. “I’ve learned that shutting the door on things makes me want to open the door even more,” Lovato explains of her approach to sobriety.

After a hiatus, she released her seventh and eighth albums Dancing with the Devil… The Art of Starting Over (2021) and Holy Fvck (2022), which respectively reached numbers two and seven in the US; the latter marked a return to rock-influenced music. Lovato goes on to thread her competitive nature to her life on television and as a pop star, noting that she carried that same self-punishment into her teen years. Her present-day friends, who were interviewed for the documentary, noted that they have had to be “careful” with what and how they eat in front of her due to restrictive policies put in place by her former team to help her not relapse. Those restrictions, however, only made her relationship with food more complicated.

Feeling miserable and stifled, she decided to drink red wine that night and within 30 minutes had called someone she knew who had drugs. Lovato went on a “shopping spree” that night and combined meth, molly, coke, weed, more alcohol, and OxyContin. What it boils down to, essentially, is not attempting to become a spokesperson for the right or wrong way for artists, or anyone for that matter, to understand their own personal gender identity. It’s more about making space for everyone who finds themselves on the same complicated journey, which inherently includes wrestling with the process of marrying one’s internal perception with the world’s external one. In January, before her romance with Ehrich began, she opened up about her desire to be a mom on New Music Daily With Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1.

Almost exactly one year before Child Star arrived, Lovato first looked back at her career with 2023’s Revamped, a compilation that turned the amps up on 10 of her past hits and transformed them into bonafide rock bangers. And just days before Child Star’s release, the singer unveiled her new song “You’ll Be OK, Kid,” an emotional love letter to her younger self, as well as future generations of kids dreaming about seeing their names in lights. Lovato revealed her trauma privately, but the person who raped her was not punished for what happened or taken out of the movie they were in.

The long-running children’s show is also where she first met fellow future Disney Channel star (and one-time bestie) Selena Gomez, who played the character Gianna at the very same time. Demi Lovato has come a long way from her days as a Disney Channel darling. Since her beginnings in Disney Channel smashes like Camp Rock and “Sonny with a Chance,” the pop star has been a constant force in the music industry, releasing eight top 10 albums and garnering millions of loyal fans around the world. While writing those early records, she sank her teeth into the tortured melodrama of acts like emo mainstays Paramore, Christian metal band Flyleaf and the pop-rock singer Kelly Clarkson, whose songs Lovato wore out in the privacy of her headphones.